E. H. H. GREEN
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198205937
- eISBN:
- 9780191717116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205937.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter explores the influence of English idealist thought on Conservatism in the period c.1880-1914, and suggests that the ideas of T. H. Green and his fellow Oxford idealists may have had as ...
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This chapter explores the influence of English idealist thought on Conservatism in the period c.1880-1914, and suggests that the ideas of T. H. Green and his fellow Oxford idealists may have had as important a resonance for Conservatives as they did for Liberals. Furthermore, by examining the Conservative collectivist ideas of an effectively unknown thinker, Arthur Boutwood, alongside those of better-known Conservative thinkers such as the historical economists W. J. Ashley, W. Cunningham, and W. A. S. Hewins, and the Compatriots Club, the chapter presents the first of the book's attempts to stress the importance of the ‘middlebrow’ in Conservative thought.Less
This chapter explores the influence of English idealist thought on Conservatism in the period c.1880-1914, and suggests that the ideas of T. H. Green and his fellow Oxford idealists may have had as important a resonance for Conservatives as they did for Liberals. Furthermore, by examining the Conservative collectivist ideas of an effectively unknown thinker, Arthur Boutwood, alongside those of better-known Conservative thinkers such as the historical economists W. J. Ashley, W. Cunningham, and W. A. S. Hewins, and the Compatriots Club, the chapter presents the first of the book's attempts to stress the importance of the ‘middlebrow’ in Conservative thought.
Michael L. Frazer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195390667
- eISBN:
- 9780199866687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390667.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis ...
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This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis Hutcheson, Bishop Joseph Butler, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Although all three made important contributions to the argument that justice and virtue cannot be products of reason alone, this chapter considers these authors primarily insofar as they presented the problems which Hume, Smith, and Herder were left to work out in their own writings. The first of these challenges was the need for a free-standing sentimentalist ethics—that is, one which does not rely on religion or metaphysics to establish the normative authority of our moral sentiments. The second challenge is to explain how our moral sentiments can lead us to a sense of justice capable of being instantiated in law-governed political institutions.Less
This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis Hutcheson, Bishop Joseph Butler, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Although all three made important contributions to the argument that justice and virtue cannot be products of reason alone, this chapter considers these authors primarily insofar as they presented the problems which Hume, Smith, and Herder were left to work out in their own writings. The first of these challenges was the need for a free-standing sentimentalist ethics—that is, one which does not rely on religion or metaphysics to establish the normative authority of our moral sentiments. The second challenge is to explain how our moral sentiments can lead us to a sense of justice capable of being instantiated in law-governed political institutions.
Peter Hinds
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264430
- eISBN:
- 9780191733994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264430.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the ...
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This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the pamphlet discourse that circulated before and after it met, and considers the powerful strategy of invoking historical precedents in polemical debate. Finally, it looks at some representations of Antony Ashley Cooper, who was the Earl of Shaftesbury.Less
This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the pamphlet discourse that circulated before and after it met, and considers the powerful strategy of invoking historical precedents in polemical debate. Finally, it looks at some representations of Antony Ashley Cooper, who was the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Ralf Dietrich
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195336641
- eISBN:
- 9780199868551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336641.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western, Popular
ONCE had two lives, each of which can be associated with one half of the 1960s. Chronologically, the ONCE Festival of musical premieres in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the nationwide performing ONCE ...
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ONCE had two lives, each of which can be associated with one half of the 1960s. Chronologically, the ONCE Festival of musical premieres in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the nationwide performing ONCE Group overlapped, but they differed in terms of funding, repertory and audiences. Aesthetic and political frames of reference, changing over the course of the decade from post‐war conservatism to baby boomer defiance, informed ONCE's use of electronics and theatricality and widened the scope of ONCE performances. Focusing on pieces by Robert Ashley (Public Opinion Descends Upon the Demonstrators; The Wolfman Motor‐City Revue) and Gordon Mumma (Megaton for William Burroughs), this chapter outlines correlations between the societal changes of the time and ONCE's status as an avant‐garde music venture.Less
ONCE had two lives, each of which can be associated with one half of the 1960s. Chronologically, the ONCE Festival of musical premieres in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the nationwide performing ONCE Group overlapped, but they differed in terms of funding, repertory and audiences. Aesthetic and political frames of reference, changing over the course of the decade from post‐war conservatism to baby boomer defiance, informed ONCE's use of electronics and theatricality and widened the scope of ONCE performances. Focusing on pieces by Robert Ashley (Public Opinion Descends Upon the Demonstrators; The Wolfman Motor‐City Revue) and Gordon Mumma (Megaton for William Burroughs), this chapter outlines correlations between the societal changes of the time and ONCE's status as an avant‐garde music venture.
Paul F. A. Bartha
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195325539
- eISBN:
- 9780199776313
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325539.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics
This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into ...
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This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into the processes involved in analogical reasoning, many of them operate with a perceptual model of analogical reasoning and appear to neglect normative questions. It is argued that most of the computational theories do, at least implicitly, incorporate normative principles and that those principles need to be examined critically. In particular, the chapter takes a close look at Gentner's systematicity principle. It is alleged that systematicity per se neither produces nor explains the plausibility of analogical arguments.Less
This chapter selectively reviews computational theories of analogical reasoning from Evans, Gentner, Holyoak and Thagard, Ashley, Carbonell, and Hofstadter. While these theories provide insight into the processes involved in analogical reasoning, many of them operate with a perceptual model of analogical reasoning and appear to neglect normative questions. It is argued that most of the computational theories do, at least implicitly, incorporate normative principles and that those principles need to be examined critically. In particular, the chapter takes a close look at Gentner's systematicity principle. It is alleged that systematicity per se neither produces nor explains the plausibility of analogical arguments.
Thomas D. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469628905
- eISBN:
- 9781469626307
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628905.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This book demonstrates that early utopian visions for England’s American colonies had a lasting impact. Those early plans not only influenced the future form of American cities, but they shaped the ...
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This book demonstrates that early utopian visions for England’s American colonies had a lasting impact. Those early plans not only influenced the future form of American cities, but they shaped the American political landscape as well. Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was one of the most powerful politicians in England when he and seven other noblemen founded the Province of Carolina. At an early stage in planning the colony, Ashley Cooper enlisted the assistance of John Locke in preparing its constitution, settlement strategy, and urban-regional design guidelines. Together they left an indelible imprint on the colony and America. Combined with other influences, notably Caribbean slave society, Carolina went on to influence the development of southern political culture. That unique political culture is rooted in ancient hierarchical traditions that stand in sharp contrast to America’s Enlightenment tradition (ironically also shaped in part by the later Locke). The book concludes with an appeal to urbanists, environmentalists, scientists, and others grounded in the Enlightenment paradigms of equality and reason to understand the powerful attraction of pre-Enlightenment political culture. Doing so, the book argues, requires understanding America’s utopian colonial origins.Less
This book demonstrates that early utopian visions for England’s American colonies had a lasting impact. Those early plans not only influenced the future form of American cities, but they shaped the American political landscape as well. Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was one of the most powerful politicians in England when he and seven other noblemen founded the Province of Carolina. At an early stage in planning the colony, Ashley Cooper enlisted the assistance of John Locke in preparing its constitution, settlement strategy, and urban-regional design guidelines. Together they left an indelible imprint on the colony and America. Combined with other influences, notably Caribbean slave society, Carolina went on to influence the development of southern political culture. That unique political culture is rooted in ancient hierarchical traditions that stand in sharp contrast to America’s Enlightenment tradition (ironically also shaped in part by the later Locke). The book concludes with an appeal to urbanists, environmentalists, scientists, and others grounded in the Enlightenment paradigms of equality and reason to understand the powerful attraction of pre-Enlightenment political culture. Doing so, the book argues, requires understanding America’s utopian colonial origins.
Richard Coopey and Donald Clarke
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198289449
- eISBN:
- 9780191684708
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198289449.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
3i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Founded in 1945 as a result of a combination of ...
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3i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Founded in 1945 as a result of a combination of pressures and counter-pressures from political parties, Whitehall, the Bank of England, and the clearing banks, the organization has played a significant role in post-war investment banking and industrial development. The first part of the book traces 3i's history, from the early years of post-war reconstruction and the role played by Piercy and Kinross, through the years of consolidation, to the higher-profile years of the change of name and style and the 1994 flotation. The second part offers an inside view of the workings of this unique institution — the controllers, 3i's role in developing MBOs, methods of assessing risk and return, its relationship with capital markets, etc. During its first fifty years 3i has invested in numerous well known and successful companies — many of these are detailed in the text (such as British Caledonian, Oxford Instruments, Laura Ashley, etc.).Less
3i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Founded in 1945 as a result of a combination of pressures and counter-pressures from political parties, Whitehall, the Bank of England, and the clearing banks, the organization has played a significant role in post-war investment banking and industrial development. The first part of the book traces 3i's history, from the early years of post-war reconstruction and the role played by Piercy and Kinross, through the years of consolidation, to the higher-profile years of the change of name and style and the 1994 flotation. The second part offers an inside view of the workings of this unique institution — the controllers, 3i's role in developing MBOs, methods of assessing risk and return, its relationship with capital markets, etc. During its first fifty years 3i has invested in numerous well known and successful companies — many of these are detailed in the text (such as British Caledonian, Oxford Instruments, Laura Ashley, etc.).
Brean S. Hammond
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112990
- eISBN:
- 9780191670909
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112990.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter amplifies the account of the ‘novelization’ of literary culture. It begins by defining ‘the polite’ and considering the ideological work that its various manifestations were required to ...
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This chapter amplifies the account of the ‘novelization’ of literary culture. It begins by defining ‘the polite’ and considering the ideological work that its various manifestations were required to perform. Professional writers like Peter Motteux, John Oldmixon, and John Dunton played a part in the shaping of polite discourse, even if their motives were those of commerce and profit, and even if they themselves would hardly make membership of the middle class. Others contributed to its formation from a position relatively external to it, like Pope and Swift, or entirely external to it: in the case of John Dennis, implacably hostile to it. And perhaps the single most important negotiator of the polite was Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, whose class vantage-point was many miles above it. Addison and Steele were central to its formation, as would be generally agreed. It is argued that they were so because together they had the range of experience and breadth of attitude necessary to meld widely disparate cultural elements into a witty, tolerant, moderate, and highly marketable literary product.Less
This chapter amplifies the account of the ‘novelization’ of literary culture. It begins by defining ‘the polite’ and considering the ideological work that its various manifestations were required to perform. Professional writers like Peter Motteux, John Oldmixon, and John Dunton played a part in the shaping of polite discourse, even if their motives were those of commerce and profit, and even if they themselves would hardly make membership of the middle class. Others contributed to its formation from a position relatively external to it, like Pope and Swift, or entirely external to it: in the case of John Dennis, implacably hostile to it. And perhaps the single most important negotiator of the polite was Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, whose class vantage-point was many miles above it. Addison and Steele were central to its formation, as would be generally agreed. It is argued that they were so because together they had the range of experience and breadth of attitude necessary to meld widely disparate cultural elements into a witty, tolerant, moderate, and highly marketable literary product.
Roger G. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195140552
- eISBN:
- 9780199848775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140552.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with ...
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In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with Burr's precious maps of the Gulf Coast, and began a long career vindicating Mississippi's judgment in favor of Burr. A disguise was necessary, because Thomas Jefferson had made Burr a hunted man. Believing that Burr had knowingly violated Judge Thomas Rodney's post-hoc parole, Cowles Mead joined the pack against him, adding an additional two thousand dollars to James Wilkinson's bounty. As Burr and Ashley rode through the winter woods of the Choctaw Cession toward the McIntosh Bluffs on the Tombigbee, they were also riding into the ambitions of Nicholas Perkins and Edmund Gaines. This chapter also discusses the attempt by Benjamin Hawkins, the government's chief representative among the Muskogee, to capture Burr; imprisonment of Justus Eric Bollmann, a physician, for helping Burr; the role of Elijah Clarke as a proto-Burr; and Fort Wilkinson.Less
In the final days of 1806, Robert Ashley and Aaron Burr departed Natchez, riding eastward in disguise. Dr. John Cummins, the son-in-law of Peter Bruin, came along a few days later, entrusted with Burr's precious maps of the Gulf Coast, and began a long career vindicating Mississippi's judgment in favor of Burr. A disguise was necessary, because Thomas Jefferson had made Burr a hunted man. Believing that Burr had knowingly violated Judge Thomas Rodney's post-hoc parole, Cowles Mead joined the pack against him, adding an additional two thousand dollars to James Wilkinson's bounty. As Burr and Ashley rode through the winter woods of the Choctaw Cession toward the McIntosh Bluffs on the Tombigbee, they were also riding into the ambitions of Nicholas Perkins and Edmund Gaines. This chapter also discusses the attempt by Benjamin Hawkins, the government's chief representative among the Muskogee, to capture Burr; imprisonment of Justus Eric Bollmann, a physician, for helping Burr; the role of Elijah Clarke as a proto-Burr; and Fort Wilkinson.
Kyle Gann
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252035494
- eISBN:
- 9780252094569
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252035494.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This book explores the life and works of Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, ...
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This book explores the life and works of Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s. During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts. Particularly known for his development of television operas beginning with Perfect Lives, Ashley spun a long series of similar text/music works, sometimes termed “performance novels.” These massive pieces have been compared with Wagner's Ring Cycle for the vastness of their vision, though the materials are completely different, often incorporating noise backgrounds, vernacular music, and highly structured, even serialized, musical configurations. Drawing on extensive research into Ashley's early years in Ann Arbor and interviews with Ashley and his collaborators, this book chronicles the life and work of this musical innovator and provides an overview of the avant-garde milieu of the 1960s and 1970s to which he was so central. The book examines all nine of Ashley's major operas to date in detail, along with many minor works, revealing the fanatical structures that underlie Ashley's music as well as private references hidden in his opera librettos.Less
This book explores the life and works of Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s. During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts. Particularly known for his development of television operas beginning with Perfect Lives, Ashley spun a long series of similar text/music works, sometimes termed “performance novels.” These massive pieces have been compared with Wagner's Ring Cycle for the vastness of their vision, though the materials are completely different, often incorporating noise backgrounds, vernacular music, and highly structured, even serialized, musical configurations. Drawing on extensive research into Ashley's early years in Ann Arbor and interviews with Ashley and his collaborators, this book chronicles the life and work of this musical innovator and provides an overview of the avant-garde milieu of the 1960s and 1970s to which he was so central. The book examines all nine of Ashley's major operas to date in detail, along with many minor works, revealing the fanatical structures that underlie Ashley's music as well as private references hidden in his opera librettos.
John Prest
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201755
- eISBN:
- 9780191675003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201755.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses some of the activities of the Improvement Commissioners in Huddersfield between 1848 and 1854. The Commissioners possessed powers to control common lodging-houses, but the ...
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This chapter discusses some of the activities of the Improvement Commissioners in Huddersfield between 1848 and 1854. The Commissioners possessed powers to control common lodging-houses, but the difficulties they experienced in doing so led them to consider going further and to adopt Ashley's Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act of 1851, and to build or buy a model lodging-house of their own. In November, they took the plunge and adopted the 1851 Act. In the twentieth century, Huddersfield's historians have tended to esteem the model lodging-house as the jewel in the Commissioners' crown.Less
This chapter discusses some of the activities of the Improvement Commissioners in Huddersfield between 1848 and 1854. The Commissioners possessed powers to control common lodging-houses, but the difficulties they experienced in doing so led them to consider going further and to adopt Ashley's Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act of 1851, and to build or buy a model lodging-house of their own. In November, they took the plunge and adopted the 1851 Act. In the twentieth century, Huddersfield's historians have tended to esteem the model lodging-house as the jewel in the Commissioners' crown.
Christopher Brooke
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691152080
- eISBN:
- 9781400842414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691152080.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter views a series of philosophical exchanges in the eighteenth century, which showcases the back and forth between plausibly Stoic and Epicurean concerns and arguments. It first takes a ...
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This chapter views a series of philosophical exchanges in the eighteenth century, which showcases the back and forth between plausibly Stoic and Epicurean concerns and arguments. It first takes a look at François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, the major opponent from within French Catholicism of the Augustinian tendency towards Epicureanism, before turning to Bernard Mandeville's critique of Shaftesbury. The chapter also studies the moral philosophies of Joseph Butler and Francis Hutcheson, both of whom directed their arguments against Mandeville and in defence of Shaftesbury. In addition, the chapter discusses a persuasive interpretation of David Hume as a somewhat Epicurean and certainly anti-Stoic moral theorist.Less
This chapter views a series of philosophical exchanges in the eighteenth century, which showcases the back and forth between plausibly Stoic and Epicurean concerns and arguments. It first takes a look at François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, the major opponent from within French Catholicism of the Augustinian tendency towards Epicureanism, before turning to Bernard Mandeville's critique of Shaftesbury. The chapter also studies the moral philosophies of Joseph Butler and Francis Hutcheson, both of whom directed their arguments against Mandeville and in defence of Shaftesbury. In addition, the chapter discusses a persuasive interpretation of David Hume as a somewhat Epicurean and certainly anti-Stoic moral theorist.
MARCUS GEORGE SINGER
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198250210
- eISBN:
- 9780191681264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198250210.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
One may wonder whether there is anything more to be said about racism except to deplore it, or anything more to be done about it except to eradicate it. ...
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One may wonder whether there is anything more to be said about racism except to deplore it, or anything more to be done about it except to eradicate it. And the answer immediately presents itself: yes, we can understand it. Marx, to the contrary, argued that the task of philosophy is not to change the world but to understand it. There is always change. Understanding is the precondition of intelligent change. This chapter does not present a general theory, as would be required for an adequate understanding; only some thoughts on the matter, on the way to understanding. It considers the views of the following on race: George E. Boxall, Jacques Barzun, Ashley Montagu, Ruth Benedict, and Robert Ardrey.Less
One may wonder whether there is anything more to be said about racism except to deplore it, or anything more to be done about it except to eradicate it. And the answer immediately presents itself: yes, we can understand it. Marx, to the contrary, argued that the task of philosophy is not to change the world but to understand it. There is always change. Understanding is the precondition of intelligent change. This chapter does not present a general theory, as would be required for an adequate understanding; only some thoughts on the matter, on the way to understanding. It considers the views of the following on race: George E. Boxall, Jacques Barzun, Ashley Montagu, Ruth Benedict, and Robert Ardrey.
Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195099362
- eISBN:
- 9780199864737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195099362.003.0023
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
Technology has a long history in both music and theater, and music theater may be the most technological of all the arts. The arrival of new technologies has always provided a focus as well as themes ...
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Technology has a long history in both music and theater, and music theater may be the most technological of all the arts. The arrival of new technologies has always provided a focus as well as themes for new work: the history of the relationship of opera and music theater on the one hand; film, video, and television on the other. Robert Ashley's video work, various uses of technology in music theater works, and digital interactivity are discussed. A final section discusses theater itself as a medium in the work of Heiner Goebbels.Less
Technology has a long history in both music and theater, and music theater may be the most technological of all the arts. The arrival of new technologies has always provided a focus as well as themes for new work: the history of the relationship of opera and music theater on the one hand; film, video, and television on the other. Robert Ashley's video work, various uses of technology in music theater works, and digital interactivity are discussed. A final section discusses theater itself as a medium in the work of Heiner Goebbels.
Laura A. Ogden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670260
- eISBN:
- 9781452947372
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670260.001.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early ...
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Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, this book explores the lives and labors of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Everglades—protectionist, ecological, commercial, historical—have become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that this book focuses on, as it seeks to reclaim the landscape’s long history as a place of human activity and, in doing so, discover what it means to be human through changing relations with other animals and plant life. This book tells this story through the lives of poor rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in tales of the Everglades’ most famous outlaws, the Ashley Gang.Less
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, this book explores the lives and labors of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Everglades—protectionist, ecological, commercial, historical—have become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that this book focuses on, as it seeks to reclaim the landscape’s long history as a place of human activity and, in doing so, discover what it means to be human through changing relations with other animals and plant life. This book tells this story through the lives of poor rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in tales of the Everglades’ most famous outlaws, the Ashley Gang.
Christopher Brooke
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691152080
- eISBN:
- 9781400842414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691152080.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter considers the seventeenth-century reception of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular the question of how he was understood as being both a funny (and dangerous) kind of Stoic and later as a ...
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This chapter considers the seventeenth-century reception of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular the question of how he was understood as being both a funny (and dangerous) kind of Stoic and later as a funny (and dangerous) kind of Epicurean. It discusses how Hobbes came to be characterized as an Epicurean and how his critics responded to the political theory he had presented in Leviathan — particularly his arguments on natural law. The chapter focuses in particular on Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, whose philosophical sympathies led him to become an opponent of Hobbes and a supporter of the latitude-men or latitudinarians and their particular engagements with Stoicism.Less
This chapter considers the seventeenth-century reception of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular the question of how he was understood as being both a funny (and dangerous) kind of Stoic and later as a funny (and dangerous) kind of Epicurean. It discusses how Hobbes came to be characterized as an Epicurean and how his critics responded to the political theory he had presented in Leviathan — particularly his arguments on natural law. The chapter focuses in particular on Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, whose philosophical sympathies led him to become an opponent of Hobbes and a supporter of the latitude-men or latitudinarians and their particular engagements with Stoicism.
Laura A. Ogden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670260
- eISBN:
- 9781452947372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670260.003.0007
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter explains the traces of Ashley Gang in the Bill Ashley Jungle. Trace impressions of the Ashley Gang continue to appear on the Everglades landscape. John Ashley and his brother Bill ...
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This chapter explains the traces of Ashley Gang in the Bill Ashley Jungle. Trace impressions of the Ashley Gang continue to appear on the Everglades landscape. John Ashley and his brother Bill remained hidden in the southern swamps for several months. While there, the brothers hunted alligators and otters together and lived off wild birds and the occasional deer. These appearances have the power to reconfigure all kinds of territorial claims, and almost every aspect of the accounts of Ashley Gang is compelled by nature’s politics. The chapter also describes traces of unnaturally large snakes that appeared throughout the Everglades landscape.Less
This chapter explains the traces of Ashley Gang in the Bill Ashley Jungle. Trace impressions of the Ashley Gang continue to appear on the Everglades landscape. John Ashley and his brother Bill remained hidden in the southern swamps for several months. While there, the brothers hunted alligators and otters together and lived off wild birds and the occasional deer. These appearances have the power to reconfigure all kinds of territorial claims, and almost every aspect of the accounts of Ashley Gang is compelled by nature’s politics. The chapter also describes traces of unnaturally large snakes that appeared throughout the Everglades landscape.
Donald Phillip Verene
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501700163
- eISBN:
- 9781501701863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700163.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter examines why Giambattista Vico deleted the Novella letteraria with which he planned to begin the New Science and replaced its pages with the dipintura he commissioned and an explanation ...
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This chapter examines why Giambattista Vico deleted the Novella letteraria with which he planned to begin the New Science and replaced its pages with the dipintura he commissioned and an explanation of it. It suggests that the answer involves both Thomas Hobbes and Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury. Vico may have intended the central figure of his frontispiece, Dame Metaphysic, to stand in opposition and represent the purest values of the spirit. Hobbes’s frontispiece in Leviathan (1651) combines within it the device of the impresa by placing above the head of his figure the line from the book of Job in the Latin Vulgate, warning that there is no power greater on the earth than Leviathan. This chapter considers what Vico thought of his frontispiece compared to that of Hobbes. It also discusses Shaftesbury’s Second Characters and Francis Bacon’s conception of the art of memory. Finally, it explores what Vico means by this analogy of the New Science with the anonymously written Tablet of Cebes.Less
This chapter examines why Giambattista Vico deleted the Novella letteraria with which he planned to begin the New Science and replaced its pages with the dipintura he commissioned and an explanation of it. It suggests that the answer involves both Thomas Hobbes and Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury. Vico may have intended the central figure of his frontispiece, Dame Metaphysic, to stand in opposition and represent the purest values of the spirit. Hobbes’s frontispiece in Leviathan (1651) combines within it the device of the impresa by placing above the head of his figure the line from the book of Job in the Latin Vulgate, warning that there is no power greater on the earth than Leviathan. This chapter considers what Vico thought of his frontispiece compared to that of Hobbes. It also discusses Shaftesbury’s Second Characters and Francis Bacon’s conception of the art of memory. Finally, it explores what Vico means by this analogy of the New Science with the anonymously written Tablet of Cebes.
Thomas D. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469628905
- eISBN:
- 9781469626307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628905.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter examines the Grand Model for the Province of Carolina. The term “Grand Model” was sometimes used to refer to the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. At other times the term was used ...
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This chapter examines the Grand Model for the Province of Carolina. The term “Grand Model” was sometimes used to refer to the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. At other times the term was used to refer specifically to the settlement plan for the colony, including detailed urban design specifications. In this chapter, the Grand Model is used to mean the Fundamental Constitutions taken together with the detailed implementing “instructions” written mostly by Locke. Special attention is given to the social hierarchy prescribed for the colony and the spatial planning associated with that idealized Gothic social model. The overall design was an attempt to create a just and stable society within a traditional social framework, and it may have led Locke to make the later, paradigm-shifting leap to new perspectives that would soon characterize the Enlightenment.Less
This chapter examines the Grand Model for the Province of Carolina. The term “Grand Model” was sometimes used to refer to the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. At other times the term was used to refer specifically to the settlement plan for the colony, including detailed urban design specifications. In this chapter, the Grand Model is used to mean the Fundamental Constitutions taken together with the detailed implementing “instructions” written mostly by Locke. Special attention is given to the social hierarchy prescribed for the colony and the spatial planning associated with that idealized Gothic social model. The overall design was an attempt to create a just and stable society within a traditional social framework, and it may have led Locke to make the later, paradigm-shifting leap to new perspectives that would soon characterize the Enlightenment.
Thomas D. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469628905
- eISBN:
- 9781469626307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628905.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter examines the implementation of the Grand Model in the context of frontier realities. The Fundamental Constitutions provided for slavery in Carolina, but it did not envision the emergence ...
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This chapter examines the implementation of the Grand Model in the context of frontier realities. The Fundamental Constitutions provided for slavery in Carolina, but it did not envision the emergence of a slave society (i.e., one in which the society is largely structured around an enslaved labor force). Colonists from Barbados brought slave society with them, and as they gained political power in Carolina they altered the social hierarchy and eliminated the ideal of reciprocity of benefits among social classes. A new model emerged that blended idealistic elements of the Grand Model with the existing model of Barbadian slave society. That model would become a template for development across the Deep South.Less
This chapter examines the implementation of the Grand Model in the context of frontier realities. The Fundamental Constitutions provided for slavery in Carolina, but it did not envision the emergence of a slave society (i.e., one in which the society is largely structured around an enslaved labor force). Colonists from Barbados brought slave society with them, and as they gained political power in Carolina they altered the social hierarchy and eliminated the ideal of reciprocity of benefits among social classes. A new model emerged that blended idealistic elements of the Grand Model with the existing model of Barbadian slave society. That model would become a template for development across the Deep South.
